Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.

Books
1126
Diana Khoi Nguyen: "from Đổi Mới"
4 min
1127
Diane Seuss: "Ballad"
7 min
1128
Diana Marie Delgado: "Grandpa"
2 min
1129
Rick Barot: "Moving the Bones"
5 min
1130
Rabindranath Tagore: "Gitanjali 83"
1 min
1131
Brittney Corrigan: "Vanishing"
4 min
1132
Nicole Sealey: "‘Pages 1-4,’ an excerpt from T...
3 min
1133
Sara Eliza Johnson: "Parable of the Unclean Spi...
3 min
1134
Destiny O. Birdsong: "Bandwidth"
3 min
1135
Derrick Austin: "The Birthday Interviews"
3 min
1136
Cortney Lamar Charleston: "It’s Important I Rem...
4 min
1137
Guest Editor Interview: May Guest Editor Sumita...
20 min
1138
Emily Pauline Johnson: "Fire-Flowers"
2 min
1139
Leah Naomi Green: "Origin Story"
4 min
1140
Dean Rader: "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"
6 min
1141
Kate Daniels: "Gertrude: In the Rooms"
5 min
1142
Rosanna Warren: "Boletus"
3 min
1143
Linda Gregerson: "When Nothing But Tree"
5 min
1144
Major Jackson: "Let Me Begin Again"
4 min
1145
Lewis Grandison Alexander: "Japanese Hokku"
5 min
1146
Ariel Francisco: "Insomniami"
5 min
1147
Kaveh Akbar: "My Father’s Accent"
4 min
1148
Jeffrey Harrison: "The Little Book of Cheerful ...
2 min
1149
Dobby Gibson: "After Reading Kobayashi Issa’s T...
2 min
1150
Camille T. Dungy: "In her mostly white town, an...
3 min